Colyton is a community in Devon, England. It lies within the East Devon regional authority location. It is 3 miles (4.8 km) from Seaton as well as 6 miles (9.7 kilometres) from Axminster. Its population in 1991 was 2,783, lowering to 2,105 at the 2011 Census. Colyton is a major part of the Coly Valley selecting ward. The ward population at the above census was 4,493. Colyton initially appeared as an ancient town around 700 AD and attributes in the Domesday Book as 'Culitone'. The 3rd code of law of King Edmund I was released at Colyton in around 945. This helped to stabilize feudal culture, by stating plainly its 4 columns: royalty, lordship, household, and also neighbourhood. It grew into a crucial farming centre and market town with a corn mill, saw mill, iron foundry as well as an oak bark tannery that is still working. Located 0.5 miles (0.8 kilometres) to the north of the community was Colcombe Castle, currently destroyed, a previous seat of the Courtenay family members, Earls of Devon. Complying with the attainder of the Marquis of Exeter the Courtenay lands escheated to the Crown, and those within Colyton were offered back for £1,000 to various homeowners of Colyton church, as listed in an act recorded in the Letters and also Papers of Henry VIII dated 6 January 1547, summed up as "John Clarke as well as others. Grant in cost-free socage, subject to leas etc. (specified), for l,000 l, of the complying with lands (extents provided) in the parish of Colyton, which are parcels of Colyton chateau, Devon, as well as belonged to Henry Marquis of Exeter, attainted". This was the origin of the Feoffees of Colyton, who continued to hold in common different residential or commercial properties in the church. The community has actually been described as "one of the most rebellious town in Devon" because of the number of its residents who signed up with the Monmouth Rebellion in 1685.